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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: chris no 1 on November 05, 2006, 06:33:04 pm

Title: cant get the work done
Post by: chris no 1 on November 05, 2006, 06:33:04 pm
hi guys i,m new to the site i.v been in the w/c buiness for atleast 9 years i.v worked for the companys now i thought it is time to go it alone. i.v gone in to partner ship with my dad i could normally do anywear between 30/40 house,s a day on my own when i used to work for other people but now i can harly get 20 house,s done a day i dont no whats happend can any one help me and solve this problem my email chrisdemery@blueyonder.co.uk
 many thanks chris
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Post by: Grafters Cleaning Services on November 05, 2006, 07:03:06 pm
could it be that now they are your own jobs you are working to a higher standard therefore taking longer over each job?
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Post by: ronaldo on November 05, 2006, 07:08:38 pm
30 or 40 a day Chris  :o i only do about 40 a week!
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Post by: julianbiggs on November 05, 2006, 08:39:15 pm
40 houses a day!!  Come on!! If you worked from 8am - 5pm that's 540 minutes    without any breaks. That means you're doing a house every 13.5 minutes to do 40 a day. Not allowing for any travelling or setting up time..I'm sorry but I find that completely impossible to achieve if you are doing a 100% job on every house.

Even to do 20 day you are only spending 27 minutes per house including travel and setting up. Are you Superman!!
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Post by: billozz on November 05, 2006, 09:15:44 pm
i agree with julian i think you must have something wrong there chris, thats a lot of houses in a day
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Post by: S_RICHARDSON on November 06, 2006, 10:21:43 am
Did you clean as a team if so then you'll obviously be quicker!!
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Post by: JM123 on November 06, 2006, 01:10:13 pm
wfp - easily do 30/40 houses a day - have done 62 in one day (in the summer, started 7.30am and finished 7.30pm)

trad - lucky if you do 25 houses a day.
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Post by: Fast 1 * on November 06, 2006, 02:28:43 pm
mmmm
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Post by: tatman on November 06, 2006, 06:22:12 pm
40 a day  ??? must be small houses ;D I'm happy with 10 a day between £10-£20 per house. ;D Must earn a fortune :P
Title: Re: cant get the work done
Post by: chris no 1 on November 06, 2006, 07:28:07 pm
hi guys i,v just looked at the measage i wrote yesterday and i,v made an mistacke it was ment to say 20/30 house,s a day not 30/40 houses
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Post by: Fast 1 * on November 06, 2006, 07:44:45 pm
mmmmmm
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Post by: john tomkins on November 06, 2006, 08:19:23 pm
I'm impressed JM123 11.6 min per house and that's without any breaks :o
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Post by: AuRavelling79 on November 06, 2006, 08:23:46 pm
Are the houses you do farther apart than the ones you did before? Compact round = less travelling time = less fuel = more dosh!
Title: Re: cant get the work done
Post by: JM123 on November 07, 2006, 10:19:36 am
the day that I done 62 I was working with the trailer system, I use 100m of 8mm on the reel and that day consisted of 3 cul-de-sac's all beside each other and one stretch of road linking those 3 to the last (4th) cul-de-sac which has 14 houses (of which I do 13).  Access to all houses apart from 3 of them is good, the 3 in question had left the gates open for me that day also so again I had no problems with them. 

I was out for 12 hrs, had half an hour break at lunchtime and another half hour at around 4.  So in all 11 hrs work = just over 10 mins per house.  Bear in mind that only 5 of them are detached and the rest are semi-detached and of these there are only 2 different house styles making them very routine and ultimately easier and faster to do (15ft pole reaches everything apart from 4 wndows on the whole run).

Granted it was a hard day but considering the semi's are all £6 and the detached are £12, £15, £8, £22 and £14 the total for the lot is £353 thats not bad for 11hrs work.

Finally the last 4 hrs was a bit slower with me tiring a bit, mustn't forget that one of the lads brought me another 400ltrs of water at lunchtime (brought 600 in the morning).  Used about 900ltrs all day.